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Read online or keep a PDF to print and share. Each guide includes its version and review date. This is general health information, not medical advice; reading it does not start care.

Topic

Trauma and stressor-related disorders

Patient guide

After Trauma — What actually helps

The treatments with the strongest evidence behind them

What the research actually shows about treatment after trauma — what the therapies involve, what to expect, what medication does and doesn't do, and how to find help in British Columbia.

Version 2026.2 · Guidelines current to August 2026 · 7 pages · Next review by 2027-08

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Clinician guide

Trauma & Stressor-Related Disorders — First-line treatment

A guideline-referenced summary for primary care and referring clinicians

What to start, what to avoid, what to do while a referral is pending, and when psychiatry adds value — with case-finding instruments, first-line psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy, and the acute-stress window.

Version 2026.3 · Guidelines current to August 2026 · 7 pages · Next review by 2027-08

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About these guides.Each summarizes major current clinical practice guidelines and is reviewed on a schedule; superseded versions leave this shelf. They cannot account for individual circumstances — please talk to your own physician or nurse practitioner about what applies to you, and never send personal health information through this website or ordinary email.